Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Customers will now be able to earn Stitch Fix credit for “gently worn” apparel items they give back to the brand via ThredUp ’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South African-owned Retail Apparel Group has reported strong performance and market gains in its latest results. The business says current macroeconomic conditions and shipping disruptions will likely continue for the rest of the calendar year coupled with global inflationary pressures and rising interest rates. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

She is SVP at the 65- year-old company, which supports and operates shipboard retail stores on nearly 100 ships operated by 15 cruise lines. Shaw: Its going to be very similar to what were doing on ships. We also can create branded logo apparel and giftable items for a cruise line or a resort.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Additionally, footwear and apparel retailer Sam Edelman has launched its ReLove resale initiative with support from the Archive platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Customers generate a prepaid shipping label from Rebag.Thredup.com, then fill any shippable box or bag with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship it to ThredUp for free. For items that sell on ThredUp, customers will receive Rebag credit that can be used online and in store.

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Retail Dive

AUGUST 10, 2021

Wells Fargo analysts say a delay in the apparel site's "direct buy" option and the exodus of many employees after staffing changes are "red flags."

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

While design can be managed from anywhere, logistics can be intimidating to many apparel companies contemplating expanding abroad. Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.” It’s not a one-size-fits-all,” Ciano concludes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Before the rise of cheap mass-produced apparel, clothing was typically made with higher quality materials, often by hand, and items lasted significantly longer. To tackle this, global apparel brands must adopt a circular economy in their business models and continuously engage the public in sustainability education.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The National Basketball Association’s Charlotte Hornets have debuted a Virtual Fan Shop that will allow fans to interact with each other virtually as well as browse and purchase fan gear that will then be shipped to their home in the real world.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2024

According to Walmart, while traditional methods of apparel production require the fabric to be cut and stitched, Unspun’s first-of-its-kind 3D weaving technology skips these steps, going straight from yarn to garment, eliminating waste generated by the process: fabric offcuts, discarded unsold inventory and transport emissions.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Consumers can fill the ThredUP Clean Out Kits with women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship them to ThredUP for free using a prepaid shipping label.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

In 2021, the retailer partnered with The Black Tux , the online men’s formalwear brand, to expand its offerings in the special occasion apparel space. that were in stock and ready to ship to customers in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

The service, already available for handbags and luxury apparel , allows casual sellers to access Ebay experts for help listing and selling their high-end products. To participate, users fill out a consignment intake form, after which the customer will be provided with a prepaid label for insured shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The premium apparel retailer operates in 128 countries at approximately 6,800 points of sale as well as online in 59 countries. Knowing what items are in-stock at its stores in real time will help improve the efficiency of ship-from-store and BOPIS operations at Hugo Boss.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Members of the athletics brand's app can order a prepaid shipping label and send back used apparel in exchange for rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Pinduoduo has made its most aggressive move yet into non-Chinese markets with the Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

The Kohl’s Marketplace already features thousands of products in categories including apparel , fitness , wellness , toys and home. The user experience is seamless within Kohls.com, with marketplace products identified by a badge on the product listing, and items are shipped directly from Kohl’s Marketplace Certified Partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

customers can print a prepaid shipping label from torrid.thredup.com, fill a shippable box with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and send it to ThredUP free of charge. The ThredUP RaaS platform allows brands to tap into its Clean Out program, which helps consumers clean out their closets for retailer credit.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2020

Industry is working to develop and document standardized methods to describe raw material attributes for apparel and general merchandise. If every single order gets shipped in an individual box, inefficiencies abound. Order Consolidation. Many are motivated to consider these factors in their purchasing decisions.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days. Under the Xpress Ship program, products are sent to an authentication centre, where they go through a multi-step verification process.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

The Chinese-based retailer has frequently come under fire for its questionable business practices, with stories of the waste and churn of cheap apparel, poor working conditions , bad product quality and claims of counterfeiting regularly landing SHEIN in the headlines.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Once an item is purchased, the seller will receive a prepaid shipping label to send it to its next owner. The process is designed to reduce the retailers’ environmental footprints and reduce the need to handle the logistics of shipping items to a third-party warehouse.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree. Struggling Apparel Retailers See Hope Online.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If you’re watching a TikTok video and somebody’s got a piece of apparel or an item on it that you really like, what if you could just quickly purchase that item?” In particular, McMillon hopes Walmart and ByteDance can work together to speed up shipping of items purchased through the platform. “If said McMillon.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

The crux of the issue lies in how revenue is recognized: most ecommerce platforms record revenue based on the sale date, not the ship date, contradicting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which require specific treatment of revenue recognition. This discrepancy in revenue recognition can have profound implications.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Seeking to minimize customers’ return complexities, Walmart has partnered with FedEx for at-home pickup of unwanted gifts or ill-fitting apparel. Customers can schedule returns via the new Carrier Pickup by FedEx service for products that have been shipped and sold by Walmart.com, using either the website or the Walmart app.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. The platform will host both local and international third-party sellers on the Shein site and app alongside Shein-branded apparel products. ”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Store categories include apparel, electronics, footwear, homeware, and beauty. In addition, the platform will utilise the company’s existing AI-driven automation tools and same-day shipping capabilities to streamline retailers’ operations. The re-commerce space is filled with untapped potential,” added Gabby.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

Payment and shipping details are prepopulated using the customer’s Roku Pay information, allowing the order to be placed with the push of a button. Upon purchase completion, the viewer returns to their programming and an email confirmation with shipping and other details is sent directly from the merchant.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

However, apparel and department stores are elevated. Normally, apparel returns are roughly 7.5% Consolidating returns at a store location is less costly than paying to ship one item from a residence, and a larger volume of customers can be moved through quickly if they don’t have to exit their cars.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2024

Citing slides shown to Chinese sellers in a recent “closed-door meeting,” The Information reports that Amazon plans to launch a special section on its site featuring low-price unbranded items that ship directly from Chinese warehouses. Shein even announced earlier this year that it was opening a U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2022

has fortified its omnichannel functionalities with same-day BOPIS, ship-from-store and pre-order offerings, deploying a new order management system (OMS) from HotWax Commerce. Steve Madden, which offers fashion footwear, accessories and apparel for men, women and children, operates 120 stores in the U.S. Steve Madden, Ltd.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Consumers are currently more willing to pay for fast shipping and are more tolerant with slower delivery, given the prevalence of shipping delays throughout the pandemic and through the holidays. 57% of BOXpoll respondents opting for free shipping consider delivery in five days to be either ‘fast’ or ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2021

customers return any Timberland footwear, apparel or accessory to a Timberland store to either be repaired or refurbished. A ship-from-home option will launch later in the summer, and the overall program will expand to the EMEA region in fall 2021 and the APAC region in spring 2022. Starting in August 2021, ReCircled will let U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

RFID-ticketed products are not yet required for drop-ship suppliers. That includes a large percentage of Nordstrom’s merchandise, such as apparel, accessories, home and gift products, baby gear, shoes and some cosmetics. Products that do not yet require RFID are mostly cosmetics, along with some household products and jewelry.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Amid declining sales, apparel retailer Express has hired restructuring adviser M3 and law firm Kirkland & Ellis to help restructure nearly $280 million of debt, according to the Wall Street Journal , which cited people with knowledge of the matter.

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